Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 69
On entering a room in which everything denoted prosperity, Joanna's father received him very kindly.
Who acts: father, everything · What happens: enter, denote, receive · To what, where: room, prosperity, nearer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 entering | mark |
| 2 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 received | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 room | det |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entering | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 denoted | obl |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 denoted | nsubj |
| 8 | denoted | denote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 room | acl:relcl |
| 9 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 denoted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 entering | punct |
| 11 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Joanna | case |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 received | nsubj |
| 14 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 received | obj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 kindly | advmod |
| 17 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 14 received | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | Joanna's father not said here | a room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | denote | past | everything | prosperity | in a room | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot prosperity=Theme in which=Attribute | |||
| 3 | receive | past | Joanna's father | nearer = near | kindly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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